Welcome to Nightmare Game III

The make-up class is at the home of Teacher Teresa, and only Ning Zhou is the only student being made up. This kind of one-on-one make-up teaching makes Qi Le people feel novel.

He confirmed once again that Ning Zhou has a unique status in the Holy See, so his teacher pays special attention to him.

This is not a good thing for Ning Zhou, especially when he obviously lacks talent in magic arts, this kind of attention has turned into terrifying mental pressure.

"Concentrate, focus, concentrate, feel your soul resonate with the Lord, listen to His teachings, and then you can receive the grace bestowed by Him."

"The healing technique is the foundation of the foundation. If I remember correctly, your mother has already mastered it when she was a teenager."

"Ning Zhou, try again now."

The Qi Le people sat aside, looking at Ning Zhou sympathetically. The child looked like a Muggle who had strayed into Hogwarts, and was confused by the magic textbook.

His teacher was also a transsexual Snape, which couldn't be more terrifying!

In order to save Ning Zhou from the fire and water, Qi Leren would ask Teacher Teresa some stupid questions from time to time. In the end, the expression on her face had changed to "Two Muggles got into my Potions class." .

The two Muggles shivered together.

After finally making it to the recess, Teacher Teresa took a deep breath and went to make tea with a sullen face.Ning Zhou's expression was obviously relieved, and Qi Leren comforted in a low voice: "It's okay, you're just not good at this."

Ning Zhou glanced at him: "You don't understand."

Qi Leren wanted to say that he understood Ning Zhou's feelings, but before he could speak, there was a knock on the door of Teacher Teresa's house, and she chatted with the people outside the door: "...a swordsmanship competition? Next week? Okay, I will inform the students tomorrow Monday."

"There is a swordsmanship competition, do you want to participate?" Qi Leren was excited. This is Ning Zhou's specialty, and he wanted to see Ning Zhou participate.

Ning Zhou's expression was solemn: "I may not be able to participate."

"Why?" Qi Le was puzzled.

"Ms. Teresa will not agree." Ning Zhou said lonely.

"Why don't you agree?"

"Because she said that instead of showing off the skills you have already mastered, it is better to save the time of showing off and make up for the skills you have not yet learned."

Qi Leren said disapprovingly: "She must have never studied educational psychology."

What Ning Zhou lacks most now is confidence. The setback in the most important magic course makes him urgently need the approval of the people around him.

Ning Zhou: "What is that?"

Qi Leren didn't explain: "Anyway, you have to mention it to Teacher Teresa later, saying that you want to participate in the competition, at least you have to fight for it."

Ning Zhou: "I..."

Teacher Teresa came back with black tea and poured a cup for each of them: "The break time is over, let's continue the class."

Ning Zhou was still hesitating, Qi Leren raised his hand: "Teacher Teresa, Ning Zhou has something to tell you!"

Ning Zhou was pushed out unexpectedly. Under Teacher Teresa's serious scrutiny, he asked cautiously: "Teacher, I want to participate..."

"No." Before finishing speaking, Teacher Teresa refused, "Ning Zhou, I know your sword skills are very good, and you don't need to waste time on this. What you should make up now is You are too far behind in the course of divine arts."

Ning Zhou nodded sullenly.

Qi Leren was a little anxious: "But..."

"No, but." Teacher Teresa looked at Qi Leren sternly, "You are the same. If you want to become a cardinal like your father, learn magic well, understand?"

Teacher Teresa has a strong aura of being a teacher. Qi Leren seems to have returned to middle school, unable to speak in the face of a strict teacher.

Until the end of the remedial class, the two Muggles listened to her lectures obediently, feeling the pain of being repeatedly tortured by magic spells they couldn't learn.

When get out of class was over, Qi Leren went to the bathroom, and Ning Zhou had already left when he came back.

"He said he has other things to do, let's take a step first and let you go back to his dormitory by yourself." Teacher Teresa said, pointing to the snacks on the table, "Are you hungry, do you want something to eat?"

Qi Leren was extremely disappointed.He didn't want to stay at the teacher's house for too long, no matter which student was willing to listen to the teacher's office, he was no exception, but he wanted to ask Teacher Teresa something, so he stayed for a snack.

After class, Teacher Teresa seemed much calmer. She added milk and sugar to Qi Leren's black tea: "Eat more, you are still growing."

Qi Le thanked him. Too much sugar was added to the black tea, and he was so tired that he couldn't help frowning.

"Don't you like it too sweet?" Teacher Teresa asked.

Qi Leren nodded.

Teacher Teresa said lightly: "I didn't like it before either. When I was young, the Holy See was far away in the Holy City. At that time, everything was available, milk and sugar, exquisite snacks and endless delicacies. Those were all things that were readily available. .It wasn't until I came to Neverland, and these once inexhaustible things became precious, that I realized how difficult it is to taste something sweet."

Hearing this, Qi Leren looked at the chinaware with sugar cubes on the table, which was specially brought out by Teacher Teresa when she entertained him.If she wants to drink tea by herself, she is reluctant to add so much milk and sugar.

He has a new understanding of the current predicament of the Holy See.

"When will your father leave for the border between the two worlds?" Teacher Teresa asked.

"I'm not sure, I have to wait for the court's instructions." Qi Leren said.

Teacher Teresa nodded, and she asked gently: "Your father didn't mention to you that I was his classmate, did he?"

Qi Leren looked at her in surprise.

"It's not just your father, we were also classmates with Maria, and our relationship was very good at that time." Teacher Teresa said, sighing, "When I was a student, I felt that homework was endless troubles, but compared to now , At that time, we were carefree. It was the most fertile and prosperous era, and the whole North Continent was thriving. No one thought that a few years later, the war between the two worlds would start. Almost all my classmates in that class died in the battle. Few people came down. Now, Maria has passed away..."

"Is that why you are so strict with Ning Zhou?" Qi Leren asked.

"Strict?" Teacher Teresa looked at him unexpectedly, "You think this is strict?"

Qi Leren nodded vigorously.

"It's not like that, kid. You haven't seen real strictness. He's Maria's son, and he's not destined to have an ordinary life," she said.

"But Ning Zhou just wants to be an ordinary person." Qi Leren said.

"It's just a naive ideal. If he was born before the war between the two worlds, no one would demand anything from him. He can do whatever he likes, be a painter, be a craftsman, be whoever he wants to be. But in today's world, being ordinary means being weak, and being manipulated by fate. If we sit back and watch him be ordinary, we are watching him die." Teacher Teresa said.

It is a luxury to live an ordinary and peaceful life.Only in a peaceful and prosperous world, ordinary people are qualified to live in an ordinary way.

But here is the nightmare world.Ordinary means that it cannot stand any death test.

There is a vague declaration of fate in Teacher Teresa's solemn expression: "He must go through countless trials to temper his body and will. He must have awareness, perseverance, and the courage to fight against fate, so that he can escape from death. Go to the end."

The people of Qi Le were thoughtful.

He is always from the perspective of a lover, feeling sorry for what Ning Zhou has experienced, and hoping that he will live a happy and smooth life and be free from suffering.But if Ning Zhou hadn't experienced this, he wouldn't be the future him.

All pain is a trial, both tormenting him and fulfilling him.

Qi Le people suddenly had a new understanding of their responsibilities.He didn't come to this mission to forgive all the sufferings of young Ning Zhou like a god descended from the sky. This kind of thinking is both naive and arrogant.

He is a witness and a companion.

He can't pave the rough road for Ning Zhou out of thin air, he can only send him a bottle of water when Ning Zhou is exhausted, and encourage him to go on by supporting his shoulders.

If Ning Zhou gets lost in the dark, all he can do is to light a lamp for him to illuminate the road ahead instead of eradicating the darkness, which is beyond human reach.

And Ning Zhou is destined to climb Mount Zion by himself, wade through the Valley of Tears, and become an immortal saint.

At this moment, Qi Leren suddenly became enlightened. He drank the black tea with milk and sugar in one gulp, and thanked Teacher Teresa seriously: "Thank you, I know what I should do. I will go to Ning Zhou now !"

There was a slight smile on Teacher Teresa's serious face: "Go, you can go to the old church on the west side to find him. I heard that he often goes there."

Qi Leren blinked curiously.

Teacher Teresa sent Qi Leren out of the house without explaining.

………………

Qi Le people inquired all the way and found the old church in the west.

It was a deserted church, and the cemetery behind was overgrown with weeds. People from Qi Le peeped in through the stained glass window and found that there was only an old priest and Ning Zhou in the church. Ning Zhou gestured something, Ning Zhou nodded understandingly, picked up the broom, and started cleaning in the church.

Ning Zhou is doing volunteer work?

The Qi Le people watched curiously, watching Ning Zhou clean up the inside of the church, and then took tools to weed the cemetery behind the church.

Ning Zhou is indeed doing volunteer work, but it's not just volunteer work.

The old church is his secret base. There are few people here, except on Sundays, and few people come here. Only a deaf-mute old priest looks after him.After Ning Zhou found out, he often came here to help clean up.

The old priest was not only deaf and dumb, but also blind. He didn't recognize him as Maria's son, but thought he was a kind helper and made him clean up every time he came.

Ning Zhou didn't say who he was, and cleaned here silently. The old priest went to his room to doze off, and gave him the keys of the church and warehouse every time.

The underground warehouse is a treasure trove, which contains not only cleaning tools, but also some unexpected gains.

Ning Zhou found a decayed wooden easel in the warehouse, and he spent a few days looking for a suitable piece of wood to repair it.He used it to paint in an empty church. When he was painting, he had peace of mind and no distractions. Those things that bothered him disappeared from his mind silently.

He is fascinated by the outlines of buildings, by the stained glass windows, and by light and shadows. This is a silent world that belongs only to him.

Sometimes he also goes to play the piano, which he also found out from the warehouse.It was found damaged by extreme cold and dry weather, with cracked soundboards and out of tune.

In Twilight Township, Ning Zhou didn't need to tune the piano by himself, this work was done by Maria, he only needed to play the piano.

In Neverland, he learned to tune the piano himself.He also worked part-time as a carpenter, planing the wood into a suitable shape, inserting it into the cracked soundboard, repairing the damaged soundboard, and the dead piano was put back in the church and played. , to be heard.

He felt that this job was more meaningful than his singing praises for the Lord in the choir.

He also found forgotten spirits in the underground warehouse. The wine was hidden in a dark compartment on the floor, and the bottle was covered with dust. He took the wine and asked the old priest, who said blankly that he did not Drinking, maybe left over from previous administrators.

Ning Zhou secretly drank a little, the spicy liquid made his body hot, he went home drunk that day, and had a dreamless sleep for a long time.

He's been hooked on the feeling ever since.

Today, he also drank wine while painting, worrying while drinking, the wine in the warehouse is almost exhausted, how can he get new spirits?

In this secret base, doing what he wants to do and drinking alcohol that the religious rules forbid him to drink, this is the most relaxing time in his life now.In the small world where no one pays attention, he feels comfortable freedom.

Ning Zhou didn't know that there was a mixed-race succubus cub lying on the glass window outside the church and watching him secretly, but he couldn't bear to disturb his moment of solitude.

But his connivance doesn't stop there.

That night, when Ning Zhou returned home, as soon as the door opened, he was sniffed by the collar of the mixed-race succubus cub.

He was like a puppy, sniffing his neck and sniffing his mouth. Ning Zhou's heart beat soared, and he took half a step back to avoid him, afraid that he would smell something.

Probably not, it was windy and snowy along the way, the smell of alcohol should have dissipated long ago, Ning Zhou thought with luck.

However, the mixed-race succubus cub put his hands on his hips and asked aggressively, "You've been drinking, haven't you?"

Ning Zhou: "..."

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Ning Zhou was so disciplined that he dared not speak.